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character and malignancy; secondly, that punishments separated by great interval must be assigned to crimes nearly allied in guilt and mischief Imprisonment may alike be the lot of the midnight robber and the petty thief; and, of two persons sentenced to death, one

may be hanged and the other only imprisoned with hard labour.

It will become necessary to inflict a prolonged imprisonment on those individuals who

are now

under sentences of transportation, and to superadd hard labour. I have consulted the Executive Council, and determined that the only additional punishment in the case

of the Chinese will be resort to the Cangue, or heavy wooden

Collar

as a

collar, with public Exposure. Transportation has exercised a most salutary influence in the case of the Chinese, and certainly operated

as a dissuasive from crime. All other punishments short of death appear to them light and insignificant, but exile in a foreign land had its terrors; and so important and essential do I consider that penalty, for the due

government of the vicious Chinese population, that I would consider the Expediency of some arrangement by which they should be sent to the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, and Penang) to which the transport should be short and cheap. Convicts from an Indian

government have long been sent thither.

The Chief Justice informs me

that

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a be character and malignancy; secondly, that punishments separated by great interval must be assigned to crimes nearly allied in guilt and mischief Imprisonment may alike be the lot of the midnight robber and the petty thief; and, of two persons sentenced to death, one may be hanged and the other only imprisoned with hard labour. It will become necessary to inflict a prolonged imprisonment on those individuals who are now under sentences of transportation, and to superadd hard labour. I have consulted the Executive Council, and determined that the only additional punishment in the case of the Chinese will be resort to the Cangue, or heavy wooden Collar as a collar, with public Exposure. Transportation has exercised a most salutary influence in the case of the Chinese, and certainly operated as a dissuasive from crime. All other punishments short of death appear to them light and insignificant, but exile in a foreign land had its terrors; and so important and essential do I consider that penalty, for the due government of the vicious Chinese population, that I would consider the Expediency of some arrangement by which they should be sent to the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Malacca, and Penang) to which the transport should be short and cheap. Convicts from an Indian government have long been sent thither. The Chief Justice informs me that

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character and malignancy ; secondly, that punishments separated by great interval must be assigned to crimes nearly allied in guilt and enischief Imprisonment may alike the lot of the midnight robber and the petty thief; and, of two persons sentenced to death, one

may k hanged and the other only imprisoned with hard labour.

It will become necessary to inflict a prolonged imprisonment those individuals who

no in

are sinw

Confinement under sentences of transportation, and to superadd hard labour. I have consulted the Executive Council, and determined that the only additional punishment in the case

of the Chinese will be resort to the Cangue, or heavy trooden

Collar

as a

our

collar, with public Exposure 75 Transportation has exercises a most salutary influence in the case of the Chinese, and certainly operated

dissuasive from crime . All. other punishments short of death appear to them light and insignificant, but exile in a foreign land had its terrors; and to important and essential do I consider that penally, for the due

urge

the

government of the vicious Chinese population, that I wouls Expediency of some arrangement by which they should be sent to the Shait Settlements (Sincapore, Malacca, and Senang) the transport to which trouts be short and cheap. Convicts from an Indian

sent thither.

governments have long been The Chief Justice informes n

that

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